Merchant Data Warehouse Lead
Location: US, TX, Irving
Department: IT
Employment type: Full-time

Company profile:
WHO WE ARE?   MILLER &amp; ASSOCIATES IS AN ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS COMPANY.We offer technical consulting, custom software development, and Business Intelligence expertise to help global businesses address their toughest technological and organizational challenges and present their best selves.SMART AND HEART.We understand the limitless potential of business technology and the immense frustration of making sense of it. We're a group of people passionate about helping our clients find imaginative solutions that make their lives easier.We are a strategic consulting, technology planning, custom software development, and design firm. Our unique group of seasoned technology experts each have years of experience understanding the goals and needs of customers and delivering solutions on time, in budget, and of tremendous quality.Innovation is at our core. We've staked our reputation on our ability to develop pioneering, forward-thinking solutions that other firms aren't capable of. In fact, nationally known consulting companies often partner with us for the creative solutions that elude them.Everything we do is guided by usability. We know that technology is worthless if no one wants to interact with it. We have an in-house team of designers and usability experts who work everyday to prove that clever design and utility are not mutually exclusive.OUR CULTUREFrom the very moment of our inception our distinct corporate culture has always stressed a strong partnership with people, both client and employee. We are a collegial group of men and women that always look forward to being of service in whatever capacity we are needed. We are rooted in our values and in the commitments we make to each other and to our clients. We come from all over; Italy, Morocco, Canada, United States, Korea, China, Nepal, India, Vietnam, but have all come here to share in the same common goal: your success.

Job description:
Consultant, Merchant Data LeadThe Data Warehouse (EDW) team seeks to add a Consultant, Merchant Data Lead to join its high-performing team to support the Oracle Retail implementation. This implementation, is one of the largest and most significant technology and organizational transformation efforts ever undertaken by the client and is critical to achieving our primary strategies over the next several years and beyond.You’ll be serving in a senior technical leadership position on the applications team, responsible for both solutions architecture and software development of the merchant dimensions within the overall Enterprise Data Warehouse.With your extensive experience supporting retail merchant analytics and data warehousing, you’ll be ideally suited to work with the Oracle Retail implementation team and its partners in this multi-year initiative to design and implement the analytical/dimensional data model supporting the full sweep and scope of Oracle Retail reporting and analytics.Additionally, you’ll be partnering with your data architect colleagues that manage the marketing and digital dimensions of the EDW to ensure that the resulting enterprise model is coherent, extensible and comprehensive.Most importantly, you’ll ensure that we’re obtaining maximum value from our investments in these areas, which will require not only technical skill, but the ability to collaborate with key users and thought leaders to align their strategies with your design.The importance of effective data management has never been greater, and you’ll have a front-seat as together we construct our next-generation data analytics platform.Candidates must exhibit excellent interpersonal and communication skills, must possess a high degree of professionalism and customer service, and must have demonstrated a long running passion and intrinsic motivation for learning new technologies and extracting business value from them.This position will have considerable design and delivery responsibility, overseeing and directing the efforts and activities of numerous contract resources, using both onsite and global delivery models.Candidates must demonstrate passion for data quality and deep understanding of the business processes that these systems enable and support.This position will require oversight of production support responsibilities lead by other teams, but is to be principally focused on leading the multiple development efforts centered on merchant analytics.Responsibilities IncludeWorking effectively with key business sponsors and strategy advisors in the creation of future generation analytical and operational reporting capabilities.Functioning as EDW subject matter expert (SME), providing technical leadership to internal team members and direction to external business partners based upon a thorough knowledge of the data and the relationship to business processes.Proposing technical enhancements to improve performance and throughput on the Vertica platform; leverage prior experience supporting data warehouse applications and rapidly assimilate the EDW business rules and data merging routines; apply data architecture expertise with relational and columnar databases to enhance the existing data model and incorporate new business elements.Effective application of a structured software development methodology, including the gathering of business requirements, design, development, testing, implementation and long-term support of data warehouse and data mart solutions.Working directly with system owners, including daily front-line support for ongoing data questions and the management of an open incident repository. Working effectively with all technical support groups, including sourcing providers, and monitoring system configuration to ensure data integrity and performance.Providing management with timely and accurate estimates of the effort and risk for new requests as received through the demand management pipeline. 

Requirements:
 Required Qualifications7+ years experience in data warehousing, with several years in a leadership position.3+ years experience developing and supporting in-house custom applications, Linux or Unix platforms preferred, with primary emphasis being large-scale data warehouse environments. Ideally, experience using Java and/or Informatica to support data warehouse file ingestion.5+ years experience working with relational databases (Informix, Oracle), including an advanced knowledge of schema design and deep expertise writing SQL queries, with strong preference for applications experience using columnar database technology, especially HP Vertica.5+ years experience working in a Unix/command-line environment, with particular interest in the candidate’s competency in flat-file text manipulation and search using Regular Expressions, AWK, sed and Perl.Passion for remaining current with new technologies and trends.Proven ability to build cooperative relationships and lead cross-functional teams, including experience working in an on-site/off-shore provider model.Ability to independently analyze problems, evaluate solutions and effectively communicate options and recommendations to the leadership team.Excellent written and verbal communication skills.Additional QualificationsExperience supporting Retail companies and Customer Marketing business functions. Experience implementing and supporting projects utilizing Enterprise Service Bus (“ESB”), Extract, Transform, and Load (“ETL”), and/or Rules Engines, strong preference for WebSphere ESB and Informatica ETL.

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